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From: David Bremner <david@tethera.net>
To: Tomi Ollila <tomi.ollila@iki.fi>, notmuch@notmuchmail.org
Subject: Re: inconsistent handling of stderr in notmuch-emacs
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Tomi Ollila <tomi.ollila@iki.fi> writes:

>
> for Older emacses the following code snippet could be utilized 
> (originally a13b38824 (Austin Clements 2013-05-31)):
>
>     (proc (apply #'start-process name buffer
>                  "/bin/sh" "-c" 
>                  "exec 2>\"$1\"; shift; exec \"$0\" \"$@\""
>                  command err-file args))
>
> But if we dropped support for emacs 24 (NEWS.25 mentioned make-process)
> then we could use make-process everywhere :D

I'm OK with deprecating support for emacs24 in the next release, and
considering that the medium term plan for dealing with this issue.

d